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In this article, the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Blinkova.

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Anna Blinkova
Анна Блинкова
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Blinkova at the 2023 US Open
Full name	Anna Vladimirovna Blinkova
Country (sports)	Russia
Born	(1998-09-10) 10 September 1998 (age 26) Moscow, Russia
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro	2015
Coach	Gerard Solves, Xavier Pujo (2024-), Ivo Klec (-2024)
Prize money	US$ 3,768,331
Career record	295–222 (57.06%)
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 34 (7 August 2023)
Current ranking	No. 75 (28 October 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	3R (2024)
French Open	3R (2019, 2023)
Wimbledon	3R (2023)
US Open	1R (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024)
Doubles
Career record	128–102 (55.65%)
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 45 (14 September 2020)
Current ranking	No. 106 (28 October 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2024)
French Open	2R (2024)
Wimbledon	3R (2019)
US Open	SF (2020)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	2–1 (66.67%)

Anna Vladimirovna Blinkova (Russian: Анна Владимировна Блинкова, IPA: [ˈanːə blʲɪnˈkovə]; born 10 September 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. On 7 August 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 34. On 14 September 2020, she peaked at No. 45 in the WTA doubles rankings. She has won one singles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles title each on WTA Challenger Tour, as well as three singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Blinkova was runner-up at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships in girls' singles and was ranked the No. 3 junior tennis player in the world in August 2015.

Personal life and background
Junior career
Professional
Performance timelines
- Singles
- Doubles
WTA Tour finals
- Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
- Doubles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)
WTA Challenger finals
- Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)
- Doubles: 1 (1 title)
ITF Circuit finals
- Singles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner–ups)
- Doubles: 11 (11 titles)
Junior Grand Slam finals
- Singles: 1 (1 runner–up)
Fed Cup participation
- Singles (0–1)
- Doubles (2–0)
WTA Tour career earnings
Wins over top-10 players
See also

Personal life and background

Anna Vladimirovna Blinkova was born on 10 September 1998 in Moscow to mother Elena and father Vladimir. During childhood, she played both tennis and chess at a high level. Her preferred surface is hardcourt. Her favourite shot is a forehand. She speaks Russian, Slovak, French and English.

Junior career

Blinkova is former junior world No. 3 player. She was runner-up at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships in girls' singles, where she lost to compatriot Sofya Zhuk.

Professional

2015–17: First steps

Blinkova at the 2017 French Open qualifications

Blinkova made her debut at the ITF Circuit at the $10k event in Kantaoui in February 2015. There she won her first ITF doubles title. In January 2016, she won her first ITF singles title at the $10K Stuttgart. In April 2016, she turned pro and made her WTA Tour debut at the Morocco Open, where she was defeated in the first round. In October 2016, she won her first match on the WTA Tour, defeating Anastasija Sevastova in the first round of Kremlin Cup.

In January 2017, she made Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open through qualifying, where she defeated Monica Niculescu in the first round before losing to Karolína Plíšková in the second. At the 2017 Wimbledon and US Open, she also reached main draw, but then lost to Elena Vesnina in the first round of both competition. During the 2017 season, she won two $100k events on the ITF Circuit in doubles event, in Ilkley and St. Petersburg.

2018–19: Major and Premier 5 third round, top 100 in singles and doubles

Blinkova at the 2019 Wimbledon

In February 2018, she reached the third round of the Premier 5 Qatar Open, defeating Elena Vesnina and Kristina Mladenovic, before she lost to world No. 7, Caroline Garcia. In May, she won her first WTA doubles title at the Morocco Open, partnering with Raluca Olaru. Blinkova entered top 100 for the first time in both singles and doubles in 2018.

On her debut at the 2019 French Open as a qualifier, she reached the third round with a win over compatriot Margarita Gasparyan and an upset over 24th seed Caroline Garcia, but then lost to 14th seed Madison Keys.

In August 2019, she reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal in singles at the Bronx Open, where she lost to Wang Qiang. At the 2019 US Open, she took defending champion and top seed Naomi Osaka to three sets. She followed this with title in New Haven on the WTA Challenger Tour. Nearly after that, she reached the semifinal of the Guangzhou Open, but then lost to Sofia Kenin. In October, she reached another semifinal at the Luxembourg Open, but lost to later champion Jeļena Ostapenko. During the year, she did even better in doubles. In February 2019, she lost alongside Wang Yafan in the doubles final at the Hua Hin Championships. After that, she reached semifinals of the Hungarian Open. In April, she reached another semifinal at the Premier-level Stuttgart Open. She then won $60k, $80k and $100k events, respectively, on the ITF Circuit. In September, she won the WTA Challenger New Haven.

2020: First top-10 win, top 60, US Open doubles semifinal

Blinkova continued to made better results in doubles than singles. Despite not producing good results in singles during the season, Blinkova started year with her first career top 10 win, defeating Belinda Bencic in the first round of the Shenzhen Open. In singles, her best result of the year came at the Italian Open, where she reached the third round, but then lost to world No. 4, Karolína Plíšková. In doubles, her first significant result came in March at the Indian Wells Challenger, where she reached the semifinal.

When tennis came back (after six month absence of the WTA Tour due to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak) in August, she first played at the Lexington Challenger, where she reached the semifinals in doubles alongside Vera Zvonareva. She followed this up with quarterfinals at the Cincinnati Open alongside Veronika Kudermetova. Things even went even better at the US Open where Blinkova and Kudermetova reached the semifinals but lost to eventual champions, Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva. In singles, she had lost to eventual semifinalist Jennifer Brady in the first round.

Blinkova qualified for the main draw at the Italian Open and defeated Aliona Bolsova in a final-set tiebreak to reach the third round.

2021: Out of top 100

Blinkova at the 2021 French Open.

Blinkova started her year with consecutive losses at the Grampians Trophy and the Australian Open, before clinching her first win of the year over former top-ten player Andrea Petkovic in the first round of the Phillip Island Trophy. However, she managed to reach the doubles semifinals of the Gippsland Trophy with Veronika Kudermetova, but lost to Chan Hao-ching/Latisha Chan 9–11 in the match tiebreak. With compatriot Anastasia Potapova she reached her third tour doubles final at the Phillip Island Trophy, losing to Ankita Raina and Kamilla Rakhimova.

She reached her first semifinal of the year at the Bol Ladies Open, a WTA 125 event, as the top seed. However, she lost to Jasmine Paolini winning just four games.

At the Wimbledon Championships, Blinkova beat Tímea Babos in the first round before falling to world No. 1, Ashleigh Barty, on centre court.

Blinkova reached the doubles semifinals of the Cincinnati Open with Aliaksandra Sasnovich, defeating top seeds Hsieh Su-wei/Elise Mertens in the second round. She lost in the first round of the US Open to Valentini Grammatikopoulou.

2022: First WTA Tour title

Blinkova reached her first singles final since 2019 at the $60k Open Andrézieux-Bouthéon, defeating Océane Dodin for her first top-100 win since August 2021, before losing to Ana Bogdan in the final.

She followed it up with another $60k final at the Open de l'Isère, where she beat the top seed Arantxa Rus before she lost to Katie Boulter in the final.

As a qualifier, Blinkova won her first career singles title at the Transylvania Open, defeating Jasmine Paolini in the final.

2023: Second French Open third round, first top-5 win

Blinkova defeated Ysaline Bonaventure and fifth seed Caroline Garcia, her first top-5 win, to reach the third round of the French Open for the second time. She lost to Elina Svitolina in three sets.

2024: Longest tiebreak and third round at Australian Open, first top-3 win

At the Australian Open, she defeated previous year runner-up Elena Rybakina in the longest tiebreak in a singles match at a major in the Open Era, in the final set of their second-round match. Blinkova won the tiebreak 22–20 and saved six match points, before converting on her tenth match point to advance to the third round of this major for the first time. The 42-point match-tiebreak supplanted the 38-point tiebreaks played by Lesia Tsurenko and Ana Bogdan the previous summer at Wimbledon and by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Andy Roddick 20-18 at the 2007 Australian Open. She lost in the third round to 26th seed Jasmine Paolini.

In September, partnering with Mayar Sherif, Blinkova won the doubles at the Jasmin Open, defeating Alina Korneeva and Anastasia Zakharova in the final. The following month she was runner-up in the singles at the WTA 125 Abierto Tampico in Mexico, losing to Marina Stakusic in the final.

Performance timelines

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	A	P	Z#	PO	G	F-S	SF-B	NMS	NH

(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup (Fed Cup), United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles

Current through the 2024 French Open.

Tournament	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	Q1	1R	3R	0 / 7	4–7	36%
French Open	A	Q3	Q2	3R	1R	1R	Q1	3R	2R	0 / 5	5–5	50%
Wimbledon	A	1R	2R	Q3	NH	2R	A	3R	1R	0 / 5	4–5	44%
US Open	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	Q2	1R	1R	0 / 7	0–7	0%
Win–loss	0–0	1–3	1–3	2–3	1–3	1–4	0–0	4–4	3–4	0 / 24	13–24	35%
National representation
Billie Jean King Cup	A	PO	A	A	W		DQ			1 / 1	0–1	0%
WTA 1000
Qatar Open	A	NMS	3R	NMS	Q1	NMS	A	NMS	A	0 / 1	2–1	67%
Dubai	NMS	A	NMS	A	NMS	A	NMS	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Indian Wells Open	A	A	A	Q2	NH	A	A	2R	3R	0 / 2	3–2	60%
Miami Open	A	A	A	Q1	NH	1R	A	2R	1R	0 / 3	1–3	25%
Madrid Open	A	A	A	A	NH	A	A	1R	1R	0 / 2	0–2	0%
Italian Open	A	A	A	A	3R	A	A	2R	2R	0 / 3	4–3	57%
Canadian Open	A	A	A	A	NH	A	A	2R	1R	0 / 2	1–2	33%
Cincinnati Open	A	A	Q1	A	Q1	Q2	A	1R	Q1	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Guadalajara Open	NH						A	A	NMS	0 / 0	0–0	–
China Open	A	A	A	1R	NH			2R	1R	0 / 3	1–3	25%
Wuhan Open	A	A	A	A	NH				A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	5–7	3–6	0 / 17	12–17	41%
Career statistics
	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	SR	W–L	Win %
Tournaments	2	7	13	14	8	17	7	24	4	Career total: 95
Titles	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	Career total: 1
Finals	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	Career total: 2
Hard win–loss	1–0	2–5	4–10	11–13	3–5	1–11	6–4	13–16	2–4	1 / 69	43–68	39%
Clay win–loss	0–1	0–2	1–1	2–1	3–3	1–4	0–1	8–5		0 / 18	15–18	45%
Grass win–loss	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	5–3		0 / 9	9–9	50%
Overall win–loss	1–1	2–8	6–13	13–14	6–8	4–17	7–6	26–24	2–4	1 / 96	67–95	41%
Win (%)	50%	20%	32%	48%	43%	19%	54%	52%	33%	Career total: 41%
Year-end ranking	206	136	98	59	60	155	80	54		$2,966,822

Doubles

Current through the 2023 Internationaux de Strasbourg.

Tournament	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	0 / 4	0–4	0%
French Open	A	1R	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	0 / 5	0–5	0%
Wimbledon	A	1R	3R	NH	2R	A	1R	0 / 4	3–4	43%
US Open	A	A	1R	SF	A	A		0 / 2	3–2	60%
Win–loss	0–0	0–2	2–2	3–3	1–3	0–2	0–3	0 / 15	6–15	29%
WTA 1000
Dubai / Qatar Open	A	A	A	2R	A	A	A	0 / 1	1–1	50%
Indian Wells Open	A	A	A	NH	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Miami Open	A	A	A	NH	1R	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Madrid Open	A	A	A	NH	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Italian Open	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Canadian Open	A	A	A	NH	A	A		0 / 0	0–0	–
Cincinnati Open	A	A	A	QF	SF	A		0 / 2	5–2	71%
Wuhan Open	A	A	2R	NH				0 / 1	1–1	50%
China Open	A	A	1R	NH			A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Career statistics
Tournaments	5	12	12	7	15	6	3	Career total: 60
Titles	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	Career total: 1
Finals	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	Career total: 4
Overall win–loss	2–5	8–11	12–12	9–7	16–14	6–6	0–3	1 / 60	53–58	48%
Year-end ranking	118	100	56	51	66	138

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
WTA 1000 (0–0)
WTA 500 (0–0)
WTA 250 (1–1)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)

Finals by setting
Outdoor (0–1)
Indoor (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2022	Transylvania Open, Romania	WTA 250	Hard (i)	Jasmine Paolini	6–2, 3–6, 6–2
Loss	1–1	May 2023	Internationaux de Strasbourg, France	WTA 250	Clay	Elina Svitolina	2–6, 3–6

Doubles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
WTA 1000 (0–0)
WTA 500 (0–0)
WTA 250 (2–3)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–3)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)

Finals by setting
Outdoor (2–3)
Indoor (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	May 2018	Rabat Grand Prix, Morocco	International	Clay	Raluca Olaru	Georgina García Pérez Fanny Stollár	6–4, 6–4
Loss	1–1	Feb 2019	Hua Hin Championships, Thailand	International	Hard	Wang Yafan	Irina-Camelia Begu Monica Niculescu	6–2, 1–6, [10–12]
Loss	1–2	Feb 2021	Phillip Island Trophy, Australia	WTA 250	Hard	Anastasia Potapova	Ankita Raina Kamilla Rakhimova	6–2, 4–6, [7–10]
Loss	1–3	Sep 2022	Chennai Open, India	WTA 250	Hard	Natela Dzalamidze	Gabriela Dabrowski Luisa Stefani	1–6, 2–6
Win	2–3	Sep 2024	Jasmin Open, Tunisia	WTA 250	Hard	Mayar Sherif	Alina Korneeva Anastasia Zakharova	2–6, 6–1, [10–8]

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2019	New Haven Challenger, United States	Hard	Usue Maitane Arconada	6–4, 6–2
Loss	1–1	May 2022	Open de Saint-Malo, France	Clay	Beatriz Haddad Maia	6–7^(3–7), 3–6
Loss	1–2	Oct 2024	Abierto Tampico, Mexico	Hard	Marina Stakusic	4–6, 6–2, 4–6

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2019	New Haven Challenger, US	Hard	Oksana Kalashnikova	Usue Maitane Arconada Jamie Loeb	6–2, 4–6, [10–4]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner–ups)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments (1–1)
$60,000 tournaments (1–2)
$25,000 tournaments (1–3)
$10,000 tournaments (1–0)

Finals by surface
Hard (4–3)
Clay (0–3)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jan 2016	ITF Stuttgart, Germany	10,000	Hard (i)	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	7–6⁽⁴⁾, 2–6, 6–2
Win	2–0	Aug 2016	ITF Westende, Belgium	25,000	Hard	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	7–5, 6–2
Loss	2–1	Sep 2016	ITF Almaty, Kazakhstan	25,000	Clay	Viktoria Kamenskaya	6–1, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	2–2	Feb 2017	Open de l'Isère, France	25,000	Hard	Markéta Vondroušová	5–7, 4–6
Win	3–2	Mar 2018	Open de Seine-et-Marne, France	60,000	Hard (i)	Karolína Muchová	w/o
Loss	3–3	May 2019	Empire Slovak Open, Slovakia	W100	Clay	Bernarda Pera	5–7, 5–7
Loss	3–4	Jan 2022	Open Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France	W60	Hard (i)	Ana Bogdan	5–7, 3–6
Loss	3–5	Feb 2022	Open de l'Isère, France	W60	Hard (i)	Katie Boulter	6–7⁽²⁾, 7–6⁽⁶⁾, 2–6
Loss	3–6	Mar 2022	ITF Le Havre, France	W25	Clay (i)	Tamara Korpatsch	6–3, 2–6, 2–6
Win	4–6	Oct 2024	ITF Macon, USA	W100	Hard	Ann Li	2-6, 6-2, 7-6⁽⁴⁾

Doubles: 11 (11 titles)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments (3–0)
$80,000 tournaments (2–0)
$50/60,000 tournaments (4–0)
$10,000 tournaments (2–0)

Finals by surface
Hard (7–0)
Clay (3–0)
Grass (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Feb 2015	ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia	10,000	Hard	Tessah Andrianjafitrimo	Arabela Fernández Rabener Eva Wacanno	6–4, 6–0
Win	2–0	Jan 2016	ITF Stuttgart, Germany	10,000	Hard (i)	Maria Marfutina	Laura Schaeder Anna Zaja	0–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Win	3–0	Dec 2016	Ankara Cup, Turkey	50,000	Hard (i)	Lidziya Marozava	Sabina Sharipova Ekaterina Yashina	4–6, 6–3, [11–9]
Win	4–0	Jun 2017	Ilkley Trophy, United Kingdom	100,000	Grass	Alla Kudryavtseva	Paula Kania Maryna Zanevska	6–1, 6–4
Win	5–0	Sep 2017	Neva Cup St. Petersburg, Russia	100,000	Hard (i)	Veronika Kudermetova	Belinda Bencic Michaela Hončová	6–3, 6–1
Win	6–0	Mar 2018	Zhuhai Open, China	60,000	Hard	Lesley Kerkhove	Nao Hibino Danka Kovinić	7–5, 6–4
Win	7–0	Oct 2018	Internationaux de Poitiers, France	80,000	Hard	Alexandra Panova	Viktorija Golubic Arantxa Rus	6–1, 6–1
Win	8–0	May 2019	Wiesbaden Open, Germany	W60	Clay	Yanina Wickmayer	Jaimee Fourlis Kathinka von Deichmann	6–3, 4–6, [10–3]
Win	9–0	May 2019	Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	W80	Clay	Xenia Knoll	Beatriz Haddad Maia Luisa Stefani	4–6, 6–2, [14–12]
Win	10–0	May 2019	Empire Slovak Open, Slovakia	W100	Clay	Xenia Knoll	Renata Voráčová Cornelia Lister	7–5, 7–5
Win	11–0	Aug 2022	Bronx Open, United States	W60	Hard	Simona Waltert	Han Na-lae Hiroko Kuwata	6–3, 6–3

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner–up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	2015	Wimbledon	Grass	Sofya Zhuk	5–7, 4–6

Fed Cup participation

Singles (0–1)

Edition	Round	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Result
2017	WG2	Feb 2017	Moscow (RUS)	Chinese Taipei	Hard (i)	Chang Kai-chen	L	3–6, 5–7

Doubles (2–0)

Edition	Round	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Partner	Opponents	W/L	Result
2017	WG2	Feb 2017	Moscow (RUS)	Chinese Taipei	Hard (i)	Anna Kalinskaya	Chan Chin-wei Hsu Ching-wen	W	6–3, 7–5
2020	F QR	Feb 2020	Cluj-Napoca (ROU)	Romania	Hard (i)	Anna Kalinskaya	Jaqueline Cristian Elena-Gabriela Ruse	W	6–3, 6–2

WTA Tour career earnings

correct as of 15 November 2021

Career	0	0	0	1,968,604	265
Year	Grand Slam singles titles	WTA singles titles	Total singles titles	Earnings ($)	Money list rank
2016	0	0	0	31,013	309
2017	0	0	0	207,988	141
2018	0	0	0	334,191	113
2019	0	0	0	530,080	80
2020	0	0	0	373,335	57
2021	0	0	0	470,729	91

Wins over top-10 players

Season	2020	2023	2024	Total
Wins	1	1	3	5

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	ABR
2020
1.	Belinda Bencic	No. 8	Shenzhen Open	Hard	1R	3–6, 6–3, 6–3	No. 58
2023
2.	Caroline Garcia	No. 5	French Open	Clay	2R	4–6, 6–3, 7–5	No. 56
2024
3.	Elena Rybakina	No. 3	Australian Open	Hard	2R	6–4, 4–6, 7–6^(22–20)	No. 57
4.	Jessica Pegula	No. 5	Indian Wells Open	Hard	2R	6–2, 3–6, 6–3	No. 45
5.	Emma Navarro	No. 8	Hong Kong Open	Hard	QF	6–4, 6–3	No. 78